Collocations for "rate"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "rate" in context.
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rate
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [pay, tax, interest, divorce, unemployment, growth, exchange] rate
- a [standard, fixed, variable, flat] rate (of)
- the [pass, failure, success] rate
- the government has [cut, raised, frozen] tax rates
- the unemployment rate has [fallen, dropped, risen]
- a [high, low, favorable] interest rate
- [fix, increase, lower, determine, fiddle] the interest rates
- the [forecasted, predicted, current, future] growth rate
- the [forecasted] rate of growth
- a growth rate of [0.7, 2.1] [points, percent]
- what is the going rate for [builders, babysitting]?
- UK: pay their [water, gas] rates
- paid [an hourly, a daily, a monthly] rate
- the rate of exchange
- the rate of return on [an investment, a stock]
- at an [alarming, incredible, unprecedented] rate
- [this, the current] rate is [sustainable, unsustainable, healthy, promising]
- the disease is [spreading, expanding] at an alarming rate
- [work, cycle, increase] at a [rapid, slow] rate
- will never [arrive, get there] at this rate
- rate your [experience, purchase]
- rate the [services, product, restaurant]
- rate the [article, response, thread]
- please rate from [1 to 10, poor to excellent]
- rate and review
- rated for [safety, low temperatures]
- rated by [users, buyers]
- the [movie, film] is rated [PG, R]
- [was, has been] rated [best, 3rd best, 2nd most, the highest-ever]
- (would) rate it at three stars
- [would, wouldn't] rate it as [good, poor, bad]
- how high [do, would] you rate it?
- rated [highly, poorly]
- the [hotel, restaurant] rates very [poorly] (for)
- I don't rate his chances (very highly)
- UK: I don't rate it
- UK: didn't rate with his [friends, coworkers, new classmates]
'rate' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
accommodation
- accrual
- adjustment
- affordable
- annual
- astonishing
- attrition
- average
- base
- bill
- book
- borrow
- cap
- churn
- comment
- consistent
- continue
- conversion
- current
- death
- decline
- decrease
- defect
- depletion
- deposit
- discard
- discharge
- divorce
- dose
- download
- drop
- effectiveness
- emergency
- employment
- exact
- exchange
- execution
- failure
- fixed
- flat
- floating
- flow
- forecast
- going
- graduation
- greatly
- growth
- guarantee
- halve
- heart